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Shawmut

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
	Kansas		Philadelphia N Yd	1863	29.9.1863	21.12.1863	sold 9.1883
	Maumee		New York N Yd	1863	2.7.1863	29.9.1864	sold 12.1869
	Nipsic		Portsmouth N Yd	24.12.1862	15.6.1863	2.9.1863	BU 1873
	Nyack		New Yord N Yd	1863	6.10.1863	28.9.1864	sold 11.1883
	Pequot		Boston N Yd	1863	4.6.1863	15.1.1864	sold 1869
	Saco		Boston N Yd	1863	28.8.1863	11.7.1864	sold 11.1883
	Shawmut		Portsmouth N Yd	2.2.1863	17.4.1863	1.11.1864	sold 9.1877
	Yantic		Philadelphia N Yd	1863	19.3.1864	12.8.1864	loaned to Naval Militia as TS 1898-1917, auxiliary 5.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	836
Displacement full, t
Length, m	54.7 pp
Breadth, m	9.14
Draught, m	3.50 mean
No of shafts	1
Machinery	Kansas: 1 HDASE, 2 straight fire-tube boilers Maumee: 1 Ericsson vibrating lever engine, 2 Martin boilers Nipsic, Nyack, Shawmut: 1 HRCRC, 2 Martin boilers Pequot: 1 Wright segmental engine, 2 Martin boilers Saco: 1 Corliss vibrating lever engine, 14 small return fire-tube boilers Yantic: 1 HDASE, 2 Martin boilers
Power, h. p.	225 - 670 Yantic: 310 Nipsic, Shawmut, Nyack: 670
Max speed, kts	Kansas: 11.6 Saco: 9.5 Maumee: 11.5 Pequot: 11 Yantic: 10 Nipsic: 12 Shawmut, Nyack: 12.5
Fuel, t	coal 120
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Kansas: 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 150pdr Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 94/22 20pdr Dahlgren RML, 2 x 1 - 86/19 12pdr Dahlgren RML Maumee: 1 x 1 - 163/22 100pdr Parrott RML, 4 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren howitzers, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML, 1 x 1 - 86/19 12pdr Dahlgren RML Nipsic: 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 150pdr Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren SB howitzers, 2 x 1 - 117/14 12pdr Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML Yantic: 1 x 1 - 203/18 150pdr Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren SB howitzers, 2 x 1 - 117/14 12pdr Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML Nyack, Shawmut: 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 163/22 100pdr Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 148/12 24pdr Dahlgren SB howitzers, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML, 2 x 1 - 86/19 Dahlgren RML Pequot: 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 203/18 150pdr Parrott RML, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML, 2 - 5 small guns Saco: 1 x 1 - 163/22 100pdr Parrott RML, 6 x 1 - 157/15 32pdr 27cwt Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML. 2 - 5 small guns
Complement	96 - 130

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Project history

Ship- or barque-rigged with one funnel, these gunboats differed considerably in machinery. Kansas had engines taken from the cargo of the blockade runner Princess Royal. It would seem that return connecting-rod engines gave the best results.

Modernizations

by 1865, many were rearmed; Kansas was armed with 2 x 1 - 279/15 Dahlgren SB, 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 107/24 30pdr Parrott RML, 5 small guns

by 1921, Yantic: was armed with 4 x 1 - 47/40 Mk I

Naval service

Pequot was sold to Haiti, and Nipsic was 'rebuilt' at Washington Navy Yard, and became one-of the Enterprise class. Yantic was loaned to Naval Militia as TS in 1898 but in 1917 returned to the Navy, recommissioned, stricken in July 1919 but recommissioned again in December and reclassified as unclassified miscellaneous auxiliary IX32 in May 1921. She was again loaned to the Naval Militia in 1926, sunk at pier in Detroit 22.11.1929, finally stricken in 1930 and broken up in 1936.